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  • The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox

    by Phillip Hamilton ...
    "[This] collection of Lucy and Henry Knox's correspondence movingly reveals a marriage and a nation coming of age in the crucible of the Revolutionary War." —Lorri Glover, author of Eliza Lucas PinckneyIn 1774, Boston bookseller Henry Knox married Lucy Waldo Flucker, the daughter of a prominent Tory family. Although Lucy's father was the third-ranking colonial official in Massachusetts, the couple ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Justifying Revolution

    Law, Virtue, and Violence in the American War of Independence

    Edited by Glenn A. Moots, Phillip Hamilton ...
    Series series Political Violence in North America
    The American imagination still exalts the Founders as the prime movers of the Revolution, and the War of Independence has become the stuff of legend. But America is not simply the invention of great men or the outcome of an inevitable political or social movement. The nation was the result of a hard, bloody, and destructive war. Justifying Revolution explores how the American Revolution’s opposing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox

    by Phillip Hamilton ...
    Love and marriage during the Revolutionary War through the letters of Lucy and Henry Knox.In 1774, Boston bookseller Henry Knox married Lucy Waldo Flucker, the daughter of a prominent Tory family. Although Lucy’s father was the third-ranking colonial official in Massachusetts, the couple joined the American cause after the Battles of Lexington and Concord and fled British-occupied Boston. Knox ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • 1776

    by David McCullough ...
    America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that placed America’s survival in the hands of George ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Washington's Spies

    The Story of America's First Spy Ring

    by Alexander Rose ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Turn: Washington’s Spies, now an original series on AMCBased on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Defiant Brides

    The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married

    by Nancy Rubin Stuart ...
    Get a “fresh perspective on the American Revolution” as an award-winning author reveals the true story of two young women who defied their Loyalist families to marry radical patriots, Henry Knox and Benedict Arnold (Shelf Awareness).When Peggy Shippen, the celebrated blonde belle of Philadelphia, married American military hero Benedict Arnold in 1779, she anticipated a life of fame and fortune, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • George Washington's Expense Account

    by Marvin Kitman, George Washington ...
    A journalist takes a close look at the Founding Father's creative accounting skills in "a very funny book" ( The New York Times Book Review).George Washington made a noble gesture of refusing payment for his services as commander in chief of the Continental Army—but as this book reveals, he also took it as an opportunity to indulge his insatiable lust for fine food and drink, extravagant clothing, ... Read more

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  • The Making of the Prefident 1789

    The Unauthorized Campaign Biography of George Washington

    by Marvin Kitman ...
    A "witty, funny and hysterically silly" political parody that dares to take on the Mount Vernon Machine ( The New York Times).Lampooning the modern "campaign insider" books, this book asks: "How is it possible that a man with no military experience becomes a general? He loses more battles than he wins and becomes a war hero? He has absolutely no political opinions in the most sophisticated ... Read more

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  • Henry Knox

    Visionary General of the American Revolution

    by Mark Puls ...
    Mark Puls delivers a compelling portrait of the Revolutionary War general who played a key role in all of George Washington's battles.During the Siege of Boston, Henry Knox's amazing 300 mile transport of forty nine cannons from Ticonderoga saved the city. Building upon his talent for logistics, Knox engineered Washington's famous Christmas night passage to safety across the Delaware River. And it ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence 1775-1783 (LOA #123)

    by Various ...
    Series Book 3 - Library of America: The American Revolution Collection
    This comprehensive collection of writings from the War of Independence poses a “subtle but profound challenge to much that we think we know about the founders and their era” (Los Angeles Times)Drawn from letters, diaries, newspaper articles, public declarations, contemporary narratives, and private memoranda, this Library of America volume brings together over 120 pieces by more than seventy ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • "Dear Darling Loulie"

    Genealogy, #2

    by Rachel Taylor Hall ...
    Series Book 2 - Genealogy
    This compilation of the letters of Cordelia Lewis Scales originally was transcribed and annotated in the 1950's by Dr. Benjamin Gray Lumpkin and Martha Neville Lumpkin. The genealogical interest the pair took in their ancestors centered on family research into the life of Dabney Minor Scales, who served as a second lieutenant on the Shenandoah, the most important and famous ship of the Confederate ... Read more

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  • The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold

    by Joyce Lee Malcolm ...
    History remembers this proud, talented, and conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict Arnold remains one of the Revolutionary period’s great puzzles. Why did a brilliant military commander, who repeatedly risked his life fighting the British, who was grievously injured in the line of duty, and fell into debt personally funding his own ... Read more

    $13.99 USD